A Palapa is a building that is open on all sides. These are typically small and are made of natural materials. While they are usually small, they do not have to be, they could be super intricate in some cases. Palapas have natural poles holding the roof in place, and always covered with natural thatch roof materials or synthetic thatch roof materials. These thatched roof covering makes the building extremely suitable for warmer weather and locations. Areas such as Pacific countries, Fiji, Maldives; Southeast Asia countries, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia; North America countries, such as Mexico, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Peru, etc, they are always building palapa thatched roof for their landscape designs. Thatched roof palapa will greatly develop an relaxed atmosphere for your family, your guests or your clients.

If you're renovating your theme park, backyard, amusement park, resort, water park or even a zoo, follow this palapa building guide to add an attractive sense of beach style. Palapas can come in many different shapes and sizes and are not overly complicated to build.

The cost of building a palapa thatched roof structure:

Depending on the size, shape and materials for the palapa, the do not need to be ridiculously expensive. You could choose the different materials of the base, the pole, the ceiling, the roof bottom and the thatched roof materials as per your budget. Besides these materials, there can be different supports that may be needed or furniture accessories that may be wanted. The size of the palapa determines how many supports it will need. These can be made of wood, metal or any other material that you so desire. This selection determines the pricing. With wood supports you have the option of getting different carvings or engravings on it to spice the environment up a little bit.

Design your thatched roof palapa before construction:

Palapas come in all shapes and sizes starting with a single pole and moving up to multiple poles depending on the requirements. Palapas can be customized to fit in practically any area around your home or business. They are mostly used in backyard environments for providing shade and improving the outdoor lifestyle. The most common palapa is a four pole solution because of its shade capacity and usability.

Before designing the palapa thatched roof structure, you need to consider below:

1. Where to build your palapa?

The most common location for building thatched roof palapa include the places near the mountain, river, lake, beach, inside the park, backyard, etc.

2. What is the size of your palapa?

This will determine how many poles will you need for your palapa building.

3. How to build the base of the palapa?

There are lots of choices, you could cover the base with cement only, or covering the palapa base with WPC flooring, bamboo flooring, natural wood floor. To make the palapa more natural feeling, natural materials are recommended.

4. What type of the poles are used for the palapa support?

To make the palapa strong enough, hardwood is recommended. For small palapa, bamboo pole could be used too.

5. What materials used for roof bottom?

If the palapa is near the house, or other shelters, no need to consider waterproof for the palapa. Otherwise, it is better to use marine plywood as roof bottom and cover with waterproof fabrics or asphalt waterproof membrane.

6. What thatched covering materials used for palapa roof decoration?

Compared with natural thatched roof materials, synthetic palapa thatched roof has below advantages:

* Fireproof:

Putting fireproof additives, we could supply fireproof artificial thatched roof

* Durable:

All our materials are tested with our UV retardant test, to ensure they could work long lifespan in outdoor environment

* Easy to install:

Synthetic thatch could be easily installed on various palapa roof structures, such as plywood, or just wooden rafter and purlin.

* No need maintenance:

There are no rot, fungi could damage the thatched roof. No birds, no worms would harm the roof too.

What artificial palapa thatched roof tiles could be used?

There are various synthetic palapa thatched roof types for your options in Beatles Co.,

● Artificial Palm Leaf Thatch Roof

● Nylon Thatch Roof

● PE Leaf Roof

● Artifificial Reed Thatch Roof

Welcome you to contact us for further details for your palapa thatched roof construction projects!